Recent advances in laboratory hematology reflected by a decade of publications.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of () we present a review of recent developments in the discipline of laboratory hematology as these are reflected by papers published in in the period 2012-2022. Since data on publications from 1963 to 2012 are also available, we were able to make a comparison between the two periods. This interestingly revealed that the share of laboratory hematology papers has steadily increased and reached now 16% of all papers published in . It also became evident that blood coagulation and fibrinolysis, erythrocytes, platelets and instrument and method evaluation constituted the 'hottest' topics with regard to number of publications. Some traditional, characteristic categories like reference intervals, standardization and harmonization, were more stable and probably will remain so in the future. With the advent of important newer topics, like new coagulation assays and drugs and cell population data generated by hematology analyzers, laboratory hematology is anticipated to remain a significant discipline in publications.